Legra
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Legra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: card scraper.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 55K
- ESSpain1 in 704K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
234 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
card scraper
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Legra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 281 | Legra | 92 |
| ES Spain | 71 | 1 in 704K | 71 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 62 | 1 in 55K | 62 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Legra | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Legra | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | — |
234 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Legra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romansh, feminine singular of leger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 281 | #74,224 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 234 | #80,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 191 | #89,895 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 71 | #34,983 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 71 | #34,849 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 62 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #10,237 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Legra mean, and where does it come from?
- card scraper Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Legra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 234 people named Legra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled legra.
- Where is Legra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Legra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Legra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 234 people named Legra in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Legra?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legraThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Legra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.